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<TITLE>Senior Honors Project at UMass</TITLE>

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<H3><BODY BACKGROUND="wall.gif">Design and Implementation of Dynamically
Generated Synchronized Computer Speech And Facial Animation </H3>

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<DT>Abstract:
<DD>By integrating visual and audio information using computers,
a new form of human-computer interface has been created. The current
research is in the design and implementation of a user interface
whereby a computer can produce speech (audio) and a moving image
of a human face synchronized to the speech (video). The result
is the appearance of a human talking to the user. The program
is given text to speak (for proof-of-concept purposes, the numbers
&quot;0&quot; - &quot;9&quot;); it then creates the speech, automatically
determines the boundaries between phonemes (to synchronize the
video), and uses morphing to smoothly transition between the images
used for each phoneme. 
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<A HREF="Honors.ps">A PostScript copy of the paper</A>
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<DT>Sample Output (in Video For Windows .AVI format):
<DD><A HREF="Zero.avi">&quot;Zero&quot;</A><BR>
<A HREF="One.avi">&quot;One&quot;</A><BR>
<A HREF="Two.avi">&quot;Two&quot;</A><BR>
<A HREF="Three.avi">&quot;Three&quot;</A><BR>
<A HREF="Four.avi">&quot;Four&quot;</A><BR>
<A HREF="Five.avi">&quot;Five&quot;</A><BR>
<A HREF="Six.avi">&quot;Six&quot;</A><BR>
<A HREF="Seven.avi">&quot;Seven&quot;</A><BR>
<A HREF="Eight.avi">&quot;Eight&quot;</A><BR>
<A HREF="Nine.avi">&quot;Nine&quot;</A><BR>
<A HREF="Hello.avi">&quot;Hello Professor Hill&quot;</A><BR>
 
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